CVE-2019-19844

Description

Django before 1.11.27, 2.x before 2.2.9, and 3.x before 3.0.1 allows account takeover. A suitably crafted email address (that is equal to an existing user's email address after case transformation of Unicode characters) would allow an attacker to be sent a password reset token for the matched user account. (One mitigation in the new releases is to send password reset tokens only to the registered user email address.)

Category

9.8
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.1 •
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 12.61% Top 10%
Vendor Advisory ubuntu.com Vendor Advisory debian.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory gentoo.org Vendor Advisory djangoproject.com Vendor Advisory djangoproject.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/releases/security/ vendor advisory
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/django-announce/3oaB2rVH3a0
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/18/security-releases/ vendor advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4224-1/ third party advisory vendor advisory
https://www.debian.org/security/2020/dsa-4598 vendor advisory
https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2020/Jan/9 mailing list
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/155872/Django-Account-Hijack.html
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20200110-0003/
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/HCM2DPUI7TOZWN4A6JFQFUVQ2XGE7GUD/ vendor advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-17 vendor advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2019-19844?
CVE-2019-19844 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2019-19844?
To fix CVE-2019-19844, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2019-19844 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2019-19844 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~13% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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